Definition of Female

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Female

An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.

Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.

Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.

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Female Quotations

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Robert Frost

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Karl Marx

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Voltaire

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
James Madison

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
Joan Rivers

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.
Dave Barry

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Lyndon B. Johnson

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Female Translations

female in Afrikaans is vroulik
female in Danish is kvindelig
female in Dutch is wijfje, vrouwtje
female in French is femelle
female in German is Buchse, weiblich
female in Norwegian is kvinnelig, hunn, kvinne
female in Spanish is feminino, hembra
female in Swedish is kvinnlig, hona, fruntimmerkvinna

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